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Superblock project gets final approval By JAMES BERNSTEiN jbernstein@liherald.com
The four-decade-long effort to build residential apartments and condominiums on Long Beach’s Superblock has come to a successful end. The Nassau County Industrial Development Agency this week approved the sale of the property by iStar, a Manhattan-based company, to the Engel Burman Group of Uniondale, the final step in an ongoing bureaucratic process that has involved government officials, political figures and residents for 40
years. Engel Burman will build two nine-story condo buildings and a 10-story apartment building on six acres between Riverside and Long Beach boulevards. The site has been largely abandoned for years and was an eyesore for the City of Long Beach. Gary Lewi, a spokesman fo r E n g e l B u r m a n , s a i d groundbreaking for the project may come as early as this fall. “This is an extraordinary chapter in the economic renaissance of a community and a county,” Engel Burman
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ThE PlANNEd SUPERBlock project, shown in a rendering, ends 40 years of negotiations and lawsuits and will clean up a longtime Long Beach eyesore. President Jan Burman said. “Through the cooperation of various parties, disciplines and sectors,” he continued, “there has been an unprecedented shared commitment to moving forward on this site.” The $369 million project will include 6,500 square feet of boardwalk-level retail, a restaurant and two levels of
1,100 parking spaces. The sale price of the property was not revealed. “This is a huge project for Long Beach and for the IDA,” agency President Richard Kessel said. Another key step along the way came in April, when the Long Beach City Council approved a settlement that
dismissed a $105 million lawsuit that iStar had filed against the city, which was contingent on the sale of the property and Engel Burman’s collecting a $2.5 million credit that iStar had paid toward building permits. The lawsuit was filed in 2018 after the city revoked a Continued on page 8
Local woman to go for gold at Tokyo Paralympics By JAMES BERNSTEiN jbernstein@liherald.com
L o r a We b s t e r, o f Po i n t Lookout, will try for gold one more time as she heads for the Paralympics in Tokyo on Friday. This will be Webster’s fifth Paralympics since 2004. The 3 4 - ye a r- o l d f u l l - t i m e m o m plays sitting volleyball for Team USA, training daily and traveling to Edmund, Okla., once a month to train with team members. The Paralympics be gin Aug. 24 and continue until Sept. 5. Webster has a prosthetic
leg after a cancerous tumor was found in her left tibia. But little has stopped her over the years. She has three children and is now pregnant with a fourth. She is as excited as ever to compete, but along with winning, there is another thing on her mind: the coronavirus. “It’s very difficult just getting to the Games,” she said on Wednesday. “We have to test twice before we fly out. Then we test every day” at the Games. “This time, it’s all about staying ne g ative for Covid.” She worries less about contracting the virus, she said,
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than about testing positive for it, which would mean her elimination from competition. Webster prefers not to discuss whether she has been va c c i n at e d , bu t s a i d t h at Japan has strict protocols to deal with Covid, including testing and social distancing. “We took all the precautions,”
she said. “The government of Japan has done everything it can to deal with the issue.” About 20 years ago, Webster began to feel pain in her left knee when she played on two basketball teams, and she went to a doctor. A biopsy revealed the tumor in her tibia. She asked her doctor to restore her health quickly so
she could continue to compete. In 2004, Webster took part in the Paralympic Games in Athens. At succeeding fouryear intervals she has competed in Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro. The American sitting volleyball team won gold in Rio. Webster was named USA Volleyball Sitting Player Continued on page 13
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Clam-eating champ crowned at Peter’s
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Hundreds of spectators from aross Long Island gathered for the annual clam-eating comtest hosted by Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park last Sunday. The friendly competition returned after it was on hold last year because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year the contest brought out some of the Island’s toughest stomachs. Firefighters from Island Park, Glen Cove, Merrick and as far away as Southampton gathered to test their intestinal fortitude. First place went to Thomas DiBlasi, of the Merrick Fire Department, after he devoured 78 clams in the first round and 141 clams in total to win $2,500 for his firehouse. Alex Araya, of the Islip Fire Department, and Mike Leitke Sr., of the North Lindenhurst Fire Department tied for second, both polishing off 15 clams in the final round. Peter’s owner Butch Yamali started hosting the contest after the Island Park Fire Department was decimated by Superstorm Sandy. “It was a dark time after Sandy,” said Town Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, a former Island Park fire chief. “There was a lot of damage here, a lot of abandoned houses, unfortunately. The fire departments, whether it was Island Park, whether it was Long Beach, whether it was Oceanside, our fire departments became everything — community centers, emergency operation centers — because our [village] halls were completely flooded.” Yalami and D’Esposito were speaking in August 2013, almost a year after Sandy hit. They had both grown up in Island Park. “Butch wanted to give back to the local firehouses,” D’Esposito said. “We happened to be watching the hot dog-eating contest [at Coney Island]. Butch said, ‘Why don’t we do it with clams?’ and here we are.” Long after proceeds from the clam-eating contest had helped South Shore fire departments recover from Sandy, the feeding frenzy continued.“The first two years we did it for different firehouses, Island Park, Oceanside. Whatever money we raised, we split it amongst the fire departments as they were rebuilding during Sandy,” D’Esposito said. “Once everything was rebuilt and there was no need for the fire departments to get the money, we said we have to keep doing this, so we moved it to first responder charities.” Among the organizations that have benefited from the contest are the Nassau County Firefighters-Operation Wounded Warriors and the Nassau County Firefighters Museum and Education Center in Uniondale. This year funds are going to the Nassau County Firefighters Pipes and Drums, a nonprofit organization. “Over 40,000 clams have been donated by Butch since the contest has been going. There’s a lot of generosity that comes from right here at Peter’s,” D’Esposito said. “Coney Island has hot dogs. We have clams.”
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peter’s Clam Bar’s annual clam-eating contest took place Sunday in Island Park. Butch Yamali, the restaurant’s owner, was seated at right. Standing, from left, were Town of Hempstead Clerk Kate Murray, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito and Supervisor Don Clavin.
Before the Clams could be devoured, they first had to be shucked, far left. after wolfing down a plate of clams, firefighters took a breather, near left. this year’s Contest benefited the Nassau County Firefighters Pipes and Drums, a nonprofit organization.
MSSN to welcome new president Sept. 1 Dr. Adhi Sharma will become president of Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital in Oceanside on Sept. 1, the medical center’s board of directors announced Tuesday. Sharma, an emergency medicine physician who helped steer MSSN’s Covid-19 response as its chief medical officer, will succeed Richard Murphy, who will retire at the end of the year. Murphy has served as president for nine years and has worked in leadership roles in the health care field for more than four decades. Over the past 18 months, Sharma was the clinical “quarterback” of MSSN’s pandemic response, while also serving as the hospital’s executive vice president for clinical and professional affairs. Under his guidance, the hospital increased capacity to 500 beds as it cared for more than 4,890 Covid-19 patients during the pandemic. Sharma also helped devise a strategy to meet daily unforeseen challenges, such as redeploying staff to meet the surge in Covid-19 patients, an equipment shortage and care for patients stricken by a disease for which there is no known cure. “Dr. Sharma has proven he is the kind of leader we need to continue our expansion of leading-edge clinical program growth,” said Joseph Fennessy, of Wantagh, co-chair of the hospital’s board of directors, which conducted a months-long search for a new hospital president. “Mount Sinai South Nassau is posed to expand services to the South Shore so our patients and their families don’t always have to travel into the city for the advanced care they need. Dr. Sharma shares the board’s vision to bring more top-quality care close to home.” Anthony Cancellieri, of Rockville Centre, co-chair of the hospital’s board, said Sharma “has the confidence of the board, the health system and, most importantly, the front-line staff to lead us going forward. He showed his mettle during the pandemic every day, and we know he is the right leader for the job.” Sharma said he was honored to be selected and will continue to help the hospital grow into a major regional medical center on the South Shore. “It is with great humility and appreciation for the dedicated clinical and support staff at the hospital that I have accepted the role as president for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Sharma said. “The hospi-
MOUNT SINAI SOUTH Nassau Hospital Chief Medial Officer Dr. Adhi Sharma, left, will succeed Richard Murphy as president on Sept. 1.
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tal is one of the leading facilities on Long Island, and its relationship with the Mount Sinai Health System has only enhanced its standing within the communities it serves. Together with the board and the clinical leadership, I look forward to setting a vision for the hospital that will carry it well into the 21st century.” Mur phy, who led the hospital’s response after Superstorm Sandy and during the pandemic, helped launch a $400 million capital construction program to modernize the Oceanside hospital and helped guide the facility to an affiliation in 2019 with the world-renowned Mount Sinai Health System. Murphy praised the selection of Sharma and said he would work during the coming months to ensure a smooth transition. “It has been my privilege to serve as CEO for Mount Sinai South Nassau,” Murphy said. “I’m appreciative of the board of directors and medical staff leadership for the support they have given me through the many challenges we have faced, including most recently the hospital’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.. . . Dr. Sharma is an excellent choice to be my successor. He has the confidence of the medical staff and the entire hospital community, including the leadership of the
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Mount Sinai Health System.” Murphy was praised for his work and dedication by Fennessy, Cancellieri, Kenneth Davis, the chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, and Arthur Klein, the president of the Mount Sinai Health Network. Expansion projects on the hospital’s main campus in Oceanside include a new four-story patient wing that will expand the Emergency Department, add nine new operating rooms and 40 critical care beds, a three-story parking structure and a new central utility plant. Also planned is a $40 million Medical Arts Pavilion at the hospital’s Long Beach campus, and a multi-specialty health care center in Wantagh that will provide an array of specialty services in one location to South Shore residents in eastern Nassau County. Sharma has been responsible for facilitating medical staff interactions with hospital administration and the governing
board, and for ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of quality medical care consistent with the hospital’s mission. He also has been instrumental in identifying opportunities for service line development and expansion, as well as the recruitment and retention of specialist physicians. Sharma is a graduate of New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y., and completed his residency in emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Jacobi/Montefiore Medical Centers. He completed a fellowship in Medical Toxicology at NYU/Bellevue. He is board certified in emergency medicine and medical toxicology. He also holds a master’s degree in health care administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Courtesy Mount Sinai South Nassau; compiled by Mike Smollins.
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Wednesday, Aug. 25 Free Summer Concert on the Beach The Department of Parks and Recreation is pleased to announce the return of the very popular “Music on the Beach” summer concert series. The concerts began Wednesday, July 7 and will take place every Wednesday night at 8 p.m. on rotating beaches, including New York Avenue, Riverside Boulevard and Neptune Boulevard.
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Laura Curran has apparently decided not to wait until after Labor Day, the traditional beginning of fall political campaigns, to kick-start her drive for a second term as Nassau County executive. Curran, 53, a Democrat, held a rally on a sweltering Saturday afternoon outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building in Mineola, where bottled water was handed out with blue campaign signs. The county executive announced her intention to run for re-election in May. After her 20-minute speech to about 100 supporters Saturday, Curran acknowledged that it is early to campaign. “The election is three months off,” she said. “But it’s important for people to know where we are going. We will be persistent to build back” after the pandemic. Curran said her fall campaign would focus on “fully funding” law enforcement, expanding access to mental health, developing multi-year plans for a balanced budget, supporting small businesses and promoting job growth. Her opponent in the fall campaign will be Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman, 65, a Republican who lives in Atlantic Beach. Blakeman has run for several offices before, including for a seat in Congress. Blakeman has said his campaign will be all about taxes. Curran, who lives in Baldwin, worked as a reporter for The New York Daily News and New York Post and as an editor at Herald Community Newspapers and was a Baldwin Board of Education member before winning a seat in the County Legislature. In 2017, she defeated Republican Jack Martins to become the first woman to be elected Nassau County exec-
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Laura Curran spoke to about 100 supporters outside county office building on a sweltering Saturday afternoon. utive. On Saturday, Curran was endorsed by John Durso, president of the 250,000-member Long Island Federation of Labor. “I’m proud to lend my support to someone who is one of us,” Durso told the crowd. He said the federation’s support for candidates has not always been unanimous. “But this time,” Durso said, “it’s Laura.” Her friend and neighbor, Naala Royale, owner of a Rockville Centre restaurant, told the crowd that Curran “lives in a normal house, walks her dog and sometimes holds press conferences on her front lawn. For us, that’s
Laura.” In her speech, Curran outlined a series of programs on which her campaign would be based. One program includes fighting crime. She noted that she, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder and other officials recently broke ground on a new $54 million, 89,000-square-foot police academy on the Nassau Community College campus in Garden City. She emphasized that Nassau was recently named the safest community in the United States by U.S. News and World Report. “That doesn’t happen by accident,” Curran said. It came about as the result of work by her administration, the police department and residents. But her veto of a bill earlier this month to give first responders the right to sue under the county Human Rights Law when they face harassment disappointed police union leaders, including Nassau Police Benevolent Association President James McDermott. Curran cited a new opinion by the office of state Attorney General Letitia James questioning the constitutionality of the bill. Under her administration, Curran said, the county had received its first positive bond rating from Wall Street in 15 years. Moody’s revised its outlook on the county to positive from stable while affirming its A2 rating, citing three straight years of improved financial results. Curran also said the county had recently reached a critical milestone in the Bay Park Conveyance Project with the County Legislature’s unanimous approval of a design-build contract with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Western Bays Constructors Joint Venture. The $439 million Bay Park Conveyance Project is designed to restore the ecosystem and water quality in the Western Bays by conveying treated effluent from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Water Pollution Control Plant’s ocean outfall pipe through underground tunnels.
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High school football camps kick off Aug. 23 By TONY BELLISSIMO tbellissimo@liherald.com
Three months and three weeks after Massapequa, Garden City, Manhasset and Wantagh captured Nassau football championships, all 53 programs in the county will start preparing for a new season Aug. 23. All scrimmages, two regular-season games, one round of playoffs and the Long Island championships were eliminated this past spring as the 2020 season was delayed six months. It’ll be back to the eight-game grind and eight playoff teams per conference this fall. Conference IV, which has 13 teams, will begin the season one week before the rest of the county and all but three of its schools won’t have the benefit of a scrimmage. A handful of games, including West Hempstead at Malverne, are set for under the lights on Friday, Sept. 3. A full schedule will kick off the following weekend, with the majority of games taking place Saturday, Sept. 11. Garden City, which has captured five straight Conference II titles, is the only defending county champion seeded No. 1 in its respective conference. Massapequa is No. 2 in Conference I behind Oceanside, Manhasset, the reigning Rutgers Cup champ, is ranked sixth in Conference III, while Wantagh is seeded second behind Plainedge. With Wantagh’s jump to III, North Shore earned the No. 1 seed in IV.
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MacArthur at V.S. Central Plainedge at South Side Carey at Elmont Massapequa at Oceanside South Side at Wantagh Clarke at Seaford Carey at Baldwin MacArthur at Garden City Wantagh at Plainedge Calhoun at Mepham
Garden City opens against an unfamiliar opponent. Baldwin, in Conference II for the first time, visits the Trojans on Sept. 11. Massapequa travels to East Meadow, Manhasset visits Bethpage, and Wantagh hosts Valley Stream North.
Five teams switch conferences
Of the five programs taking on new conference rivals this September, more than half joined Conference II: Baldwin, Herricks and Glen Cove are seeded No. 9, 10 and 13, respectively. It’s the first time Baldwin will not play in the top conference. Wantagh is back in its longtime stomping grounds of Conference III, which includes South Side again after the
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For the first time since the late 1980s, someone other than Stephen Carroll is leading Baldwin as its head coach. Frank Chimienti, former head coach at Valley Stream Central and an assistant at Freeport for the past five seasons, has taken over the helm and is thrilled about the energy displayed by the Bruins during summer workouts. “It’s not like I’m taking over a program in need of a rebuild,” Chimienti said. “Baldwin has such a great tradition and there’s a lot of talent around.” Making their head coaching debuts in September will be Frank Baglivo at Clarke and Kevin O’Hagan at East Meadow. A former assistant under Rob Perpall at Seaford, Michael Corcoran returns to lead the Vikings.
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Concert to honor Sept. 11 first-responders By STEPHANIE BANAT newsroom@liherald.com
Nearly 20 years have passed since the U.S. was shaken by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. This Saturday, the New York City-based nonprofit Tunnel to Towers Foundation will host a Never Forget Concert at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attacks. “We have a beautiful, patriotic opening planned for the concert,” the foundation’s founder and CEO, Frank Siller, said. “We’re going to honor our fallen soldiers in a truly reverent way … and remember what happened on Sept. 11, and our many great heroes including my own brother, Stephen, who paid the ultimate sacrifice that day.” The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation was created in 2001 by Frank to honor his brother, Stephen, who was a member of the New York City Fire Department. Siller strapped some 60 pounds of gear to his back and ran two miles through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel (now the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel) to the twin towers, where he died in the effort to save others. The organization also honors the nation’s military and first responders. The Never Forget Concert will begin at 7 p.m., and will feature performances by a variety of renowned artists and groups, including Journey, the Chainsmokers, the Steve Miller Band, John Fogerty (of Creedence Clearwater Revival), Ann Wilson (of Heart), Lee Brice, Wyclef Jean, Gavin DeGraw, “The Voice” contestant Wé McDonald, Lee Greenwood, Flo Rida, rapper Danny Rodriguez, “American Idol” contestant Jax and guitarist G.E. Smith, who will serve as musical director. There will also be a few surprise guests, Siller said. The tribute concert, sponsored by
GMC, Home Depot Foundation and Verizon, will be recorded and later broadcast on WAXQ/104.3 FM, select iHeart stations and on the iHeartRadio app on Sept. 11. A crowd of some 15,000 guests is expected, Tunnel to Towers Executive Vice President Matthew Mahoney said. The foundation has donated thousands of concert tickets to families associated with 9/11, first responders, police officers, firefighters, military personnel and Gold Star families, Siller said. All proceeds will benefit the foundation, which provides mortgage-free homes to injured veterans, first responders and Gold Star families with young children, as part of its Smart Home Program. It also hosts programs such as the Fallen First Responder Home Program and the Gold Star Family Home Program, as well as the annual Tunnel to Towers 5K, which retraces Stephen Siller’s final steps. And his brother is walking 500 miles through six states, from Washington, D.C., to Lower Manhattan, in the Never Forget National Walk, a special commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Stephen Siller’s daughter, Genevieve Siller, 23, who lives on Staten Island, said she appreciates that music fans will honor those who lost their lives. “It is so special to have others come together to remember my father and the many others who selflessly gave up their lives for our country,” she said. “It is comforting that even after 20 years, New Yorkers will still come together to celebrate these heroes.” Although Sept. 11 is a bittersweet day for her and her family, Genevieve said she was grateful that her father’s life and legacy have helped so many. “I truly believe my father was put on this Earth to help others,” she said, “and he has done that through both his life and death.” Tickets, starting at $121, are available for purchase online at tickets.JonesBeach.com.
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as she had previously. “But we need to help people avoid danger. Our goal is always public safety.” Curran had said previously that she was Nassau County Executive Laura Curran plant- increasing shark patrols by Nassau police helied a flag on Nickerson Beach in Lido Monday in copters “out of an abundance of caution,” and an ongoing war against what she and others say urged residents to “stay calm, use common sense are a greater number of sharks this summer than and follow lifeguard instructions.” in most years. Just before she spoke Monday, sevThe gray flag with a white shark eral police helicopters few over the emblazoned in the middle will fly on water off Nickerson Beach. Nickerson Beach when sharks are In over 100 years, there have only sighted as a further warning to swimbeen about a half dozen shark bites mers, Curran said at a news conferoff Long Island beaches. ence, her second about sharks in less Curran said shark warning flags than a moth. A red flag already flies are also used on beaches in New Engon Nickerson to warn against other land. The flags at Nickerson will fly dangers, such as rough seas and for 24 hours after a sighting, Curran storms. said. “We want to give people as much She was accompanied at the news LAURA warning as possible,” Curran said conference by Tom Paladino, captain from a lectern on a walkway to the CURRAN of a sightseeing boat headquartered beach. at Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, but County executive Curran said there have been 26 which plies the waters off Nassau confirmed shark sightings in Nassau County as well. waters so far this summer, six more Paladino noted that there are than in all of last summer. She said there were more shark sightings this summer because of two sightings just Monday morning off Jones warmer weather and cleaner water, which have Beach. attracted other marine-type life, such as whales. A few weeks ago, a lifeguard at Jones Beach “There definitely is an increase in sharks,” thought he had encountered a shark when he felt Paladino said, adding they are seeking bait food. something against his legs in the water and Both Curran and Paladino said there is good emerged with a cut on his leg. news in all of this: It shows that the marine life “Our goal is not to scare people,” Curran said, are recovering from pollution in the ocean.
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Nassau County Executive Laura Curran has vetoed a bill that would increase protections for all first responders, including police officers, auxiliary police officers, corrections officers, paid and volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians, by imposing civil penalties of up to $50,000 per incident against anyone who assaults, menaces or harasses current and former members of this protected class. Before her decision, Curran reached out to the Attorney General Letitia James’s office for guidance on whether the bill “strikes the proper legal balance between the government’s responsibility to protect its uniformed personnel and its duty not to interfere with the ability of the people to exercise their civil rights legally without fear of penalty.” Curran first commended first responders, including police who supported the bill. “I’m proud of the dedicated first responders who’ve made Nassau the safest county in America,” she said, “and I continue to stand firmly with the brave men and women of law enforcement, and against any efforts to ‘defund the police.’“ In her statement, Curran cited the attorney general’s advice: “The guidance provided by the New York state attorney general raises issues about the constitutionality of the proposed law, which would inhibit residents’ rights to free speech and protest. The proposed bill is well-intentioned, but should not come at
the costs of the basic First Amendment freedoms that we all enjoy as Americans.” The attorney general’s letter, drafted by Rick Sawyer, special counsel for hate crimes, echoed County Legislator Siela Bynoe and Legislator Carrie Solages’s words when they voted against the bill on Aug. 3, saying the measure, if it were to become law, could be used to “chill protected speech.” Nassau County Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President James McDermott, who is to retire Sept. 1, issued a statement: “We are very disappointed in the actions of County Executive Curran vetoing a piece of legislation that was created in direct response to the increase in discrimination and violence toward our membership in the last few years.” The County Legislature’s Republican majority echoed McDermott in its own statement, which read, “It’s unfortunate that the county executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders.” The county has not provided comprehensive data on the number of discriminatory or violent incidents that NCPD members have been subjected to. Both Curran and NCPD Commissioner Ryder had touted last year’s civil rights protests in the county as largely peaceful, with one officer injured. Meanwhile, according to a June county police report, this year Blacks were almost three times more likely to lodge formal complaints against the NCPD than whites, as was the case during an incident
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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF NASSAU WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST MICHELE AVILA AKA MICHELLE ANN GOMEZ, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated January 29, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the North Side Steps of the Courtroom of the Supreme Court, 100 Supreme Court Drive, Mineola, NY 11501, on September 07, 2021 at 2:30PM, premises known as 328 EAST CHESTER STREET, LONG BEACH, NY 11561. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Long Beach, Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau and State of New York, SECTION 59, BLOCK 139, LOTS 49 and 50. Approximate amount of judgment $383,969.90 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 612184/2017. The aforementioned auction
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MEMBERS OF LONG Advocates for Police Accountability sat on the floor of the legislative chambers on Aug.3 as speakers railed against the measure to add police protections. of forcible arrest of three men during a June 2020 protest in East Meadow, which was referred to James for review. Civil rights groups and activists across Nassau have continued to send letters and protest the bill, as a supermajority of 13 in the Legislature could override Curran’s veto. The Aug. 3 vote in the Legislature was 12 to 6, with 11 Republican members voting for the bill, in addition to Democratic Legislator Delia DeRiggiWhitton. Republican Legislator William Gaylor was not present to vote. The bill’s sponsor, Legislator Joshua Lafazan, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, responded to the
veto, saying, “As a lawmaker, I, of course, respect the opinion of New York Attorney General Tish James. Therefore, I respect the county executive’s decision to veto this bill based on the AG’s guidance and will not vote to override County Executive Curran.” Republican lawmakers said they would formally receive Curran’s veto at the Legislature’s next meeting Sept. 27. The majority would then have 30 days to schedule a vote, which would land about a week before the Nov. 2 election, when Curran and all 19 county legislative seats will be up for election.
L.B.’s Jessica Mogol meets President Herzog of Israel By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com
Suddenly, 17-year-old Jessica Mogol of Long Beach found herself face to face with the president of Israel in Jerusalem. Mogol, who will be a senior at Long Beach High School this fall, was on a tour of Israel in July with 38 teenage members of the Chabad teen network, known as CTeen. The Chabad is an Orthodox, Hasidic movement. The teens on the tour came from all over the U.S. She represented her local chapter, CTeen of The Beaches. The local chapter’s tour Jessica was arranged by Rabbi Eli and Beila Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches in Long Beach. “He was really friendly,” Jessica said of the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. “He didn’t seem scary.” Mogol was one of six teens picked to meet Herzog, after receiving a tour of his residence in Jerusalem. “They discussed matters important to Jewish life in America, sharing with the president their experiences with anti-
Semitism, Jewish pride and what it’s like being part of a minority Jewish community in a public school setting,” Rabbi Goodman said. Mogol said Herzog asked the students to talk about themselves and where they were from. “I said there were a good number of Jews in Long Beach,” Mogol said. The young woman said she was impressed by the spirituality she found in Israel, as well as the sense history, the food and the fun exhibited by Israelis. Mogol had never been bat mitzvahed, so a religious coming-of-age ceremony was Mogol arranged for her at the Kotel, or the Western Wall. Rabbi Goodman said that one of the values of the trip is that teens receive a different perspective of Israel than they see in American media, where wars are covered but much else is not. “I liked the culture,” Mogol said. The Israelis are pretty much like us. They are pretty friendly.”
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East Rockaway $718,000 Grant Avenue. Colonial. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms. Partial finished basement. Updated kitchen with granite countertops. Home office. Park-like backyard. Taxes: $14,820.56 Elmont $680,000 Baylis Avenue. Split Ranch. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms. Finished basement. Eat-in kitchen. Formal dining room. Master bedroom with Jacuzzi tub. Den/family room. Enclosed sun room with large deck. Near shopping and transportation. Taxes: $14,563.67
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n the early morning of April 28, I tiptoed into my dew-coated backyard in Merrick to watch as an orange sun slowly migrated upward, sending its rays streaming through the hundreds of flower-covered branches on the three cherry and two apple trees that my wife and I planted nearly 20 years ago when we first moved in. It is a glorious moment that I await each year, when I can stand and breathe in the sheer beauty of those life-sustaining flowers, all white and pink. Each is such a tiny, SCOTT seemingly insignificant thing. CollecBRINTON tively, however, these flowers constitute a powerful force. This is the natural world reborn in what was once a virtually lifeless suburban backyard. When my wife and I moved in, our yard was all lawn except for a handful of hydrangea, holly and Japanese yew bushes, two scrawny dogwood trees and one ornamental cherry around the edges. In the early years in our home, we ripped out about half of the lawn to make way for many more trees, bushes and flowers, a number of them native species. We wanted to recreate, in a sense, the back-
yards that we knew as children. I grew up in rural Yaphank, in Suffolk County, surrounded by a dense forest of white pine and oak trees. My wife was raised in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, but spent many days in her family’s village of Rajdavitsa, amid cherry orchards full of wildflowers. We wanted trees through which squirrels and birds could scurry and construct their nests. We wanted a natural habitat. Two decades later, I’m proud to say that we have one. The cherries that we planted are more than 20 feet tall, and the apples, over 30 feet. All were purchased as one-foot bare-root saplings for a couple dollars each from the Arbor Day Foundation. We also planted four arborvitae, three maples, two white pines, two dwarf Alberta spruces, a Japanese maple, many more hydrangeas and hollies, boxwoods, barberries, red osier dogwoods, butterfly, raspberry and blackberry bushes, forsythias, fountain and maiden grasses, euonymuses, lilies, lilacs, hostas, black-eyed Susans, peonies and purple cone flowers, among others. Where once there was no wildlife, now we have bees and butterflies and birds — red cardinals, blue jays, European starlings, grackles, house sparrows, Baltimore orioles and my wife’s favorite, mockingbirds. We’ve even had birds build nests in
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our trees, including a robin and a mourning dove. I love that. There are also squirrels, which eat our apples and, occasionally, our tomatoes, as well as raccoons and opossums here and there. This year we certified our yard as a Wildlife Habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. We started the simple process by answering a few quick questions: Does your yard provide shelter and food for wildlife? Is there a water source from which wildlife can drink? Are you committed to natural yard maintenance, without the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers? Then you pay a fee — certification is a fundraiser for this nonprofit environmental organization. Finally, NWF sends you a beautiful green metal sign, which we staked in our front yard’s center bed for all our neighbors to see as they’re out walking their dogs or jogging by. The sign sends a message that our yard is a safe place for wildlife. Between 1982 and 2001, 34 million acres of open space, an area the size of Illinois, were lost to development — roughly four acres per minute, or 6,000 acres a day. More than 10 million of those acres were covered over to make way for houses, buildings, lawns and pavement between 1982 and 1997, according to the U.S. Forest Ser-
here once there was no wildlife, we now have all that we hoped for.
vice, which projects that America will lose another 26 million acres to development by 2030. Each of us has a choice: We can leave our yards as lawn and pavement, or start planting to restore at least some of what has been lost. Collectively, we could reshape suburbia from a traditionally wildlife-averse landscape to a habitat that welcomes wild creatures of all shapes and sizes. The family from which we purchased our home were the original owners of the house, which was constructed shortly after World War II. It was among the first homes built in the area. The couple, in their early 80s when we bought it from them, spoke of a time when farmland stretched from the block just north of us to Merrick Road. That plot is now a shopping center. South of our home was covered by wetlands — what people in the mid-20th century thought of as swamp. It’s now all homes, the wetlands filled in to construct row upon row of split-level ranches, many double or triple their original size. We cannot undo the past. We can, however, commit to a more sustainable future. To learn more about how you can certify your yard with the National Wildlife Federation, go to nwf.org. Scott Brinton is the Herald Community Newspapers’ executive editor and an adjunct professor at the Hofstra University Herbert School of Communication. Comments about this column? SBrinton@liherald.com.
All you can eat? Amid a tenacious virus, not so much.
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f there’s one thing that is quintessentially American, it’s the all-you-caneat, stuff-yourself-till-you-die buffet. Now, as the Delta variant spreads, shutting down buffet venues across the country, many folks are missing the opportunity for unrestrained gorging, which is a kind of sport coast to coast. This is a small grievance, to be sure, considering the misery that Covid has wrought, but it’s one of the pandemic lifestyle changes that bite. Like not being able to see your doctor in person or having RANDI to move your book KREISS group online or canceling your plans to see friends or family. With Covid unbound, we have to carefully consider whether to dine out, unless it is a well-spaced outdoor setting. Dozens of buffet restaurants have gone belly up, and the rest are struggling to create safer dining opportunities. Not that buffets have ever been the healthy go-to choice for a meal. The basic idea is that you can abandon any reasonable eating habits you may have acquired and just shovel in as much food as you want to with-
out anyone saying “enough.” In fact, some folks have taken to competing at a few of the big buffet emporia to see if they can get kicked out for eating too much. No such thing. You. Cannot. Eat. Too. Much. No one wants to be reminded that there has always been a direct path from the buffet line to the IV line in the E.R. We Americans want our super-sized meals, damn the glucose and cholesterol readings. If you dine out at a traditional restaurant, it gets awkward to order three desserts, but a buffet makes it not only possible but easy. Now, with Covid, buffet restaurants are struggling to survive, except in the South, where Texas, Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee vie for the best attendance award. There is guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: “Avoid offering any self-serve food or drink options, such as buffets, salad bars and drink stations. This limits the use of shared serving utensils, handles, buttons or touch screens and helps customers to stay seated and at least 6 feet apart from people who do not live in their household.” Right. In Florida, where masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, many buffets are
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still in business. Oh sure, there may be a server behind the dessert bar, helping you to the pie, but you’re jammed in with a million other unmasked people. Historically, Las Vegas has always offered the biggest, cheapest buffets. If you were willing to leave your life savings at the roulette table, the hotel was willing to feed you into a coma. The Bacchanal Buffet at Caesars Palace was the ultimate food experience for thousands of tourists. According to a review, it served more than 3,000 people a day across nine stations, featuring hundreds of items including nigiri sushi, dim sum, rotisserie chicken, 12-hour roasted American wagyu, paella, lobster bisque, snow crab legs, chicken and waffles, gnocchi, pizza, deviled eggs, pho, miso soup, Penang curry, cheeseburger sliders, soba noodles, poke, foie gras PB&J, oysters on the half-shell, shrimp and grits, pozole, tofu, General Tso’s chicken, avocado toast, peppercorn-crusted prime rib and more. According to its website, Caesar’s has reopened its buffet after making renovations and (one would hope) installing safety measures to avoid serving up a superspreader for dessert.
n Florida, masks are a sign of weak-minded liberalism, and buffets survive.
I don’t want to come off as a buffet snob. I’ve put in my time at the bacon station at many breakfast buffets. On the road, a cheap hotel buffet was an acceptable choice. You could always find something to eat. Here on Long Island, private tennis, golf and social clubs drew new members to their opulent buffets. I loved being a guest at these places, which offered delicious food and the all-you-can-eat ethos, although with more savoir faire than a Golden Corral. Buffets have been so abundant and ubiquitous that people learned to brainstorm the most effective methods of getting the best choices of expensive cuts of meat and seafood without wasting stomach space on the dinner rolls. My own son-inlaw nailed down the tactical approach to buffets years ago: Eat protein first. Don’t bulk up on salad. Go to the lobster and the shrimp and hold off on the carbs. No one ever made any profit on his buffet dinners. Now most buffets are the stuff of nostalgia. My most memorable one was a lunch for President Ronald Reagan when he and Nancy visited Temple Ohr Torah in North Woodmere. The centerpiece was a bust of the president, done in chopped liver. Copyright 2021 Randi Kreiss. Randi can be reached at randik3@aol.com.
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U.N.: Climate change is real, and it’s getting uglier
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o the climate deniers, we say this: Wake up. July was the hottest in the past 142 years, since humans started recording climate data, according to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. July had previously been the hottest month ever recorded in 2016, 2019 and 2020. What we are seeing now is climate change play out in real time, as predicted by scientists dating back to the 1960s and the administration of President Lyndon Johnson. As a nation, we have largely ignored the crisis, pretending it wasn’t happening, hoping the scientists had got this one wrong. They didn’t. We can see that now. We can see it in the massive wildfires that have consumed swaths of the American West and southern Europe. California and Colorado may be on fire, but so are Italy and Greece. No fewer than nine wildfires are now ravaging California. Exacerbated by extreme drought, the Dixie Fire has burned since July 13 and scorched more than half a million acres in Plumas and Butte counties. Need we say more? The climate crisis is particularly worrisome for Long Islanders. We, after all, live on an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island Sound, which are predicted to rise because ice shelves in Greenland and Antarctica are melting into the seas, causing water levels to rise, inch by inch, foot by foot, over decades. The 195-member United Nations International Panel on Climate Change recently released its sixth Assessment Report, offering the consensus findings and opinions of thousands of the world’s leading climatologists. The warnings are dire. When the IPCC began its work 33 years ago, it built some small level of doubt into its reports that maybe, just maybe, humans weren’t the cause of the Earth’s rapidly rising temperatures. Not anymore. In its most recent report, issued only weeks ago, the IPCC stated, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” As a result, the report continues, “Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.” Climate change works like this: We humans burn fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas — to generate electricity and heat our homes and businesses. We also burn gasoline — which is made from oil — to power our cars, buses and trucks. That produces lots of carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change, which traps infrared heat that is radiated into
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space from the Earth’s surface, warming the entirety of the planet. On average, human activities send 40 billion tons — tons — of carbon into the atmosphere each year. And here’s the thing: Despite our growing knowledge and awareness of the climate crisis, that volume of carbon continues to increase. Between 2014 and 2016, amid negotiations over the Paris Climate Agreement, carbon emissions leveled off, giving us some hope that perhaps we might be headed in the right direction. But those emissions started to rise again in 2017, the year President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and they continued to increase in 2018 and 2019, before falling last year during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when everyone stayed home, according to The World Counts, a website that
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tracks carbon emissions. That we could, in fact, reduce our emissions dramatically during the pandemic should be cause for hope — not celebration, but hope. We are capable of limiting, even reducing our carbon output. We can seek and find alternatives to the old ways if we resolve to do so. The continued warming of the Earth through the middle of the century is all but inevitable, according to the IPCC report. Ensuring that climate change does not continue past that point is, however, possible. “Strong and sustained reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would limit climate change,” the report states. Now, not later, is the time to commit to those reductions.
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he Smithtown School District will restrict the use of 34 BrainPop instructional videos in classrooms because they introduce topics like Black Lives Matter and human sexuality. The restriction is in response to a couple who complained at the district’s July Board of Education meeting that the videos were biased against conservatives and “no more than a call for revolution, for our young people to protest,” according to Newsday. A BrainPop spokesperson responded via ALAN email that “we created the video on SINGER the Black Lives Matter protests to provide parents and educators a resource for explaining the protests and movement in kid-friendly terms. The video, which features a cartoon robot named Moby, “doesn’t call for or encourage a revolution.” BrainPop videos discuss over a thousand topics in math, science, social studies and English. They are used in almost three-quarters of U.S. school districts. Not coincidently, there were also complaints about BrainPop at a July school board
meeting in the Three Village School District. A speaker charged that the videos had “BLM all over it, along with Pride and videos that say if you’re white, you’re basically an oppressor.” You can watch the nine-minute offending BrainPop Black Lives Matter video on You Tube. In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump carried every election district in Smithtown, some by over 30 percentage points, earning Smithtown the nickname Trumptown, New York. Smithtown also returned Lee Zeldin to Congress. Zeldin, one of the most conservative Republicans in the House of Representatives, voted against establishing a commission to investigate what happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, supported Trump’s claims that the election was somehow stolen from him and asked the Supreme Court to overturn the result. In May, Smithtown voters elected three conservative candidates affiliated with the pro-Trump group Long Island Loud Majority to the Board of Education. While it’s unclear whether the group represents a majority of Long Islanders, it is definitely loud when disrupting school board meetings, at which members often
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he campaign in Smithtown against diversity efforts first drew attention in January.
LETTERS People have a right to choose To the Editor: Re Jerry Kremer’s column “The political losers are killing your neighbors” (Aug. 5-11): I am amazed, and want to know what planet Kremer comes from. First it was Trump derangement syndrome, and now it’s Republican derangement syndrome. He says the so-called health haters should be treated the same way as people who were arrested on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. Kremer speaks of Dr. Anthony Fauci, who flipped-flopped from day one, saying you have nothing to fear from Covid-19, starting with no masks. Then it was masks. Then it was two masks. Kremer mentioned conservative Fox host Tucker Carlson, who rails against vaccines. Last time I looked, we had freedom of speech in this country, but apparently, only if you agree with the left, according to Kremer. Then there’s Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whom Kremer tries to smear because he did an amazing job during the coronavirus pandemic while other governors fiddled. Notice that Kremer never mentions California, New Jersey and New York, all states controlled by Democratic administrations, which were disaster areas during the pandemic.
attack staff and student speakers. They have also been accused of propagating anti-Semitic tropes. During the school board campaign, the group circulated a newsletter attempting to connect opposition school board candidates with George Soros, a progressive and a Jew who has been targeted by anti-Semitic forces in Europe. The Smithtown campaign against Black Lives Matter and diversity efforts first drew public attention in January, when parents complained about the speaker at the district’s Family Literacy Night. Broadway actress Diamond Essence White read a children’s book called “Not Quite Snow White.” White, who is Black, is an outspoken supporter of Black Lives Matter. Smithtown Superintendent Mark Secaur apologized to protesting parents for the invitation to a “polarizing” personality. After the Long Island Loud Majoritybacked candidates were elected to the school board, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and administration, who had guided its diversity and equity efforts as a member of the district’s Equity Team, resigned. She had been criticized by parents and LILM,
which argued that diversity and equity were really subterfuge to promote critical race theory. The push to take over local school boards is part of a long-term strategy of the conservative group American Legislative Exchange Council to reshape American education and society by taking control of local governing bodies. Opposition to critical race theory has replaced opposition to the 1619 Project as the main mobilizing point for conservatives across the country. In response to the assault on CRT and the 1619 Project, the Zinn Education Project is organizing teachers to pledge to “teach the truth” and participate in Days of Action. It also provides sample lessons. In Smithtown and other Trump-supporting communities across the U.S., however, school boards and frightened administrators apparently don’t want teachers to “teach the truth.” Dr. Alan Singer is a professor of teaching, learning and technology and the director of social studies education programs at Hofstra University. He is a former New York City high school social studies teacher and editor of Social Science Docket, a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for the Social Studies. Follow him on twitter at https://twitter.com/AlanJSinger1.
FRAMEWORK by Christina Daly
Governor Cuomo sent elderly patients to their deaths by executive order, placing them in nursing homes while a hospital ship stood empty and the Javits Center was vacant of patients. Nor is there mention of former President Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash, a super-spreader event in the making, as the liberals would say. Democratic politicians and supporters flew in on private planes, causing a huge carbon footprint, but people like me are the problem. So, yes, politicians are killing your neighbors by trying to suppress people’s right to choose and make their own decisions about themselves and their families. MICHAEL APPICE Westbury
Pulling out is a mistake To the Editor: I voted for Biden with enthusiasm, but in May wrote to the Herald opposing his decision to withdraw the last remaining 2,700 American military from Afghanistan — citing the setback it would be for women and girls there. Remember that it is now 20 years without major Taliban presence. A whole new generation of Afghans has evolved, with the internet creating a more democratic environment through social communication. Afghani-
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stan has changed and policy should have changed too. Our American presence there is not for nation-building, but the Afghans have been building their own nation. They just needed what we had made available and now have pulled out from under them. For the decades since the end of World
War II, we have left tens of thousands of our military personnel in Germany and Japan. We could afford to leave 2,700 for another unspecified number of years. BOB PRAVER Glen Cove
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